Created an attachment (id=279486) /var/log/messages file I also suffer from this bug. uname -ir: 2.6.27.19-3.2-default x86_64 /proc/interrupts: CPU0 CPU1 0: 71832 72828 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 5 7 IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 0 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 72 64 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 1690 1616 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix 15: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix 16: 581 168 IO-APIC-fasteoi nvidia 17: 26663 10586 IO-APIC-fasteoi ata_piix, eth0, b43 18: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi mmc0 19: 1 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci1394 20: 3236 2221 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb4, ehci_hcd:usb7 21: 8821 2932 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb5, HDA Intel 22: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb3, uhci_hcd:usb6 NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 53608 57620 Local timer interrupts RES: 13893 16887 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 1241 296 function call interrupts TLB: 216 229 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts ERR: 0 lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS (rev a1) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02) 03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05) 03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) 03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12) 03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12) 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) I attached the /var/log/messages file. I have a dual core Intel Core2 CPU, and one of the cores was totally used by ksoftirqd and the network died after some time (`ping` also had an error with some sort of sendmessage buffer).